Preview of my most insanely edited segment of all time

My goal for this one was to visually match the intensity of Evergrace's shop theme, but still let the viewer make sense of the chaos

And this is the final result. This is probably the most time I spent on single thumbnail (usually they take me <2-3 hours, but this one took me days). There's a lot of layering/blending involved, but hopefully you can see all of the individual elements and where they came from

I tried a lot of different ways to fill in the empty space near the top/bottom, used text from various Japanese scans covering Evergrace (it's not just random text); painted in the corners & Darius' face to add more contrast and help him stand out more

Eventually I started over, keeping Darius roughly the same.

The Krissalis overlapping with Sharline is still from the original Darius piece, just cropped and brought down to fit the aspect ratio. For Sharline I ended with the Novelization cover art, the Crest is ripped directly from the EG Logo

I tried a lot of things for Sharline, but most of them didn't fit either (AgeTec promo material & in-game story slides)

I didn't use the previous right panel at all, instead overlaying different EG art to create a similar effect

In the first WIP I wanted to try and include Sienna, so my next source was the EG OST Liner Notes. I tried various things but none of them ended up working out

I wanted to use this art of Darius from the beginning, this is my favorite promo art for Evergrace and does well to represent the color scheme of the game

On the right is the same art from a Playstation magazine with higher saturation, and I wanted to recreate this look.

Going to post my scrapped & WIP Evergrace thumbnails here too, I'll make a thread of most of the images used throughout the process too

I made this account over a year ago and didn't touch it again cause I'm not a huge fan of social media but thanks to @taptroupe.bsky.social people have found me and I have to use it again

Two screenshots I took of King's Field 1 skeletons, these are what I put into my KF1 video thumbnail. I wanted to replicate the original "mind-boggling effects" meme and I had to maneuver around these skeletons while taking pictures in real time

First post. I might dump all the FromSoftware Archive stuff I have on my PC that I thought was cool and grabbed from internet archive.

For now this is 3 pages of a mini art booklet that I think came with the original Dark Souls

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